It didn’t help that Myth stood by all Summer as 0bama pulverized him. He was a weak candidate - unfortunately it was a real weak GOP field.
THere is really only one lesson to be learned for conservatives.
Quit being the battered, abused wife of the GOP ELite.
Put your foot down, both in the Primaries and the General Election and say no when they put up a candidate who is diametrically opposed to your principles as Romney was for any complete conservative.
By complete conservative, I mean a Social, Fiscal, and Defense/Military conservative.
Romney utterly failed on two of those, Social and Fiscal conservatism.
If we don’t force the GOP to listen to us, the GOP will ultimately go the way of the Whigs.
Many conservatives were against the bailouts. They’d also have a problem with Ohio because if you think 8% unemployment is bad, imagine if the entire state is unemployed!
My philosophy is if someone who smokes everyday has a heart blockage, don’t deny him surgery because he did this to himself. First fix the problem and then work with him to help him quit.
Obama’s approach is to perform surgery and then give the patient a cig to smoke so that he’ll keep coming back.
Lesson learned: GOP had better identify its winners very early on, support them, coach them on how to deal with the Enemedia, and teach them how to civilly debate each other without blowing up the party.
My top prospects for 2016: McDonnell, Pence, & Portman. Ryan should be House Speaker. Judas Christie: fuggedaboudit.
No amount of work can overcome the effects of a poor candidate.
I don’t give a flying (fill in the blank) what yet another reporter thinks should be my lesson. I’ve read the daily drivel from just about everywhere for almost a year. They’re all without a clue. They are no better at predicting the future or analyzing the past than the average joe on the street. So, please, mr reporter guy, just shut up and try reporting just the facts.
You can’t use tax cuts to buy off people who are net recipients of tax transfers. Figuring out what we can offer them that is consistent with our principles is the task of conservatives between now and the next election.
This is ignored at peril. Elections now are about building interest group coalitions not ideology. If anything is to be learned from the Libertarian Party it’s that no one cares about abstract ideas but they do care about the bottom line. Thinking about the issue of the GOP bridging the gap with minority voters, one idea is that the GOP starts to invest in minority business interests. By helping to break the cycle of dependency on democrat funds, you may be able to bring some of the black business class into the GOP fold.
As long as the media and dems continue to pick our nominee, we’re screwed.
Quote: “For many years, Republicans have relied on Jude Wanniski’s “Two Santa Claus” theory, the strategy of using the promise of tax cuts to compete with Democrats’ promises of cash and other benefits. In part as a consequence of that strategy, a great many Americans pay little or no federal income taxes, while many of the other federal taxes they pay are indirect or partly hidden. Mitt Romney was right: You can’t use tax cuts to buy off people who are net recipients of tax transfers. Figuring out what we can offer them that is consistent with our principles is the task of conservatives between now and the next election.”
I have an idea. It is difficult to tell people the pain Obama is causing them while administering a pain killer. Stop the unemployment benefits. If Obama wants to raise taxes, I say fine, lets raise them. Let us stop trying to convince the American Sheeple that this guy is bad for them while ensuring that they don’t feel the pain. Let’s bring the pain all the while holding Obama out as having “won” when he gets his way. That way, he owns the consequences. Over a fiscal cliff, great. Until it happens the American Sheeple just won’t get what it means. Time to reach rock bottom.
Oh and it is also time to declare war on the media. They are no more and no less than an unelected but ruling arm of the democrat party.
There wasn’t a candidate in the GOP primary that could have crafted a better campaign in an attempt to hold the base while catering to Swing State voters. From the start the race was going to be determined by less than ten states.
Please someone name the perfect candidate who could have done it? Not even Reagan could have beaten Obama.